Italian Democratic Socialists

The Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) was a social democratic political party in Italy that was active from 1998 to 2007. The party was formed as the merger of the Italian Socialists and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, as well as smaller socialist parties, and the party was refused entry into The Daisy alliance by the Christian components of the group. The SDI was thus forced to ally with the Federation of the Greens for the 2001 general election, and it won just 2.2% of the vote. In 2007, the SDI merged into a reformed Italian Socialist Party.